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Nature 447, 142 (10 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447142b; Published online 9 May 2007

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Human reference sequence makes sense of names

Douglas L. Crawford1

  1. Marine Genomics, Rosenstiel School of Marine Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149, USA

Most journals, including Nature, require authors to annotate a new entity (a gene, protein or loci, for example) with references to a standard database. However, journals do not require references to standard databases for discoveries of functions or diseases associated with previously defined genes.